Eating Well the Wellness Way : Optimizing Hormones the Wellness Way

Post COVID era will not be the same, people will think about security before wealthy and Wellness than Illness. Security Health and Wellness will become New Normal. State of Wellbeing start from inside with balance of Hormones in your body which regulate growth, maturation, function and apoptosis in cyclic manner. Lack or imbalance of essential hormones will lead to senescence and follow by disease process which can be prevented or delay.

Fact about hormones and well-being
 

Will it be great if you can look younger and work with maximum vitality through the stressful day?

The secret of this is no longer secret anymore. The foundation of well-being strategy combine with five pillars including Diet, Exercise, Supplementation, Stress Reduction and Hormones Balance. Always remember that the foundation of anti-aging and rejuvenation process should be synergistic with the slogan ofHealthy from Inside and Beuty from Within.

Hormones are specific substances that produce from endocrine glands in our bodies. Hormones work as messengers or mediator that travel in our bloodstream to specific tissues and organs involved. The major endocrine glands are the pituitary, pineal, thymus, thyroid, adrenal glands, ovaries and testes. Hormones involve in our biological processes for enhancing proper organ functions. With aging, the production of hormones change continuously, some hormones levels increase while some decrease which alter on energy, metabolism, immune function, growth and even sexual function.

Regular physical activity can help maintaining some hormones levels but for those people with aging, sedentary lifestyle, stressful life, lack of quality and proper sleep and consume low quality fast food, all these unhealthy habits may lead to hormone imbalance and insufficiency.

Knowledge about Hormones and their functions is necessary
 

As everyone has the knowledge that urban living lifestyle, stress, and unhealthy diet and etc, lead to decrease in production of hormones and accelerate aging process. Lets get to know more about our hormones functions and start analyzing ourselves together.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) your adrenal glands make hormone DHEA from cholesterol then our bodies convert them into testosterone and estrogen in ovaries and testes, The peak time of production this hormone is when we are mid-20s and drop with aging start from 35 years of age. Thats why we easily gain weight ,feel fatigue and low energy ,easily stress and poor quality sleep with advancing age because DHEA effects our metabolism ,energy , immunity, bone strength and muscle mass.

Human Growth Hormone (hGH) produce by pituitary gland and help in developing and maintaining of tissues and organs growth especially in children because it increase muscle strength, burn fat and raise energy levels. For optimal growth hormone production you may need a regular exercise using your muscle , eat less carbohydrate and sugar together with early sleep about 10 pm nightly. Turn off your WIFI and any electronic that may interfere brain wave. Some essential oil such as Lavender oil can improve sleep quality thus increase in production of essential hGH.

Testosteronemostly produce in testes of men but also produce in significant amount in womens ovaries. More and more evidence emerging from new research show that Testosterone is one of index for Longevity. People who have healthy and optimal level of Testosterone in daily production live longer than people who had less Testosterone. Testosterone help in regulate healthy status of human body beside improve sex drive as everyone think before, it also improve the production of red blood cells, sperms, bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass and strength. Testosterone also improve mood and positive attitude,

After age of 30, most men begin to experience a gradual decline in testosterone. A decrease in sex drive sometimes accompanies the drop in testosterone level , leading many men to mistakenly believe that their loss of interest in sex, mood swing, gain weight are simply due to getting older. This decline in testosterone level occur in women too and nearly cause the same problem as men, But can we fix it? The answer is YES. You can definitely work things out!
 

Estrogenrefers to estradiol, estrone and estriol. The primary function of estrogens is to stimulate growth and development of female secondary sexual characteristics including breasts, uterus, regulation of the menstrual cycle etc. In menestrogenhelps in maturation of thespermand maintenance of a healthylibido. Estrogen also help improving collagen content and quality, increase skin thickness and improve blood supply to the skin in both men and women. A certain level of estrogen is needed for a womans body to function properly but when low estrogen levels strike, what results are many of the most typical symptoms that women may associate with menopause, such as hot flushes, anxiety, sleepless and insomnia, loss of libido or night sweats. This is the reason why men feel their women are hard to understand and mood swing.

Progesteroneanother female hormone which also produce in men body in small amount too. It main function is to balance the effect of Estrogen. While Estrogen has proliferative effect progesterone help maintain apoptosis of cell growth. Many research showed that healthy level of progesterone in women bodies may decrease the chance to develop breast cancer and uterine cancer. But the thing that most people do not know is that it prevent the condition call Estrogen dominant which has a lot of symptoms such as migraine headache, mood swing, pelvic pain, weight gain, poor sleep and insomnia etc. Maintain healthy level of progesterone make people calm and sleep well too.

Cortisolanother hormone from adrenal gland known in general as stress hormone but it is essential especially in the morning to wake you up and go to work, Maintain normal level during the day with high cortisol in the morning and less in the evening make a great day for ordinary people because it will wake you up in the morning and do not stress you in the evening. Balancing Cortisol and DHEA is essential to protect you from the condition called Adrenal fatigue

Thyroid hormones help facilitate many metabolism process in human body, regulate our hormonal systems, increase energy production, our immune function etc. by accelerating blood circulation they improve the irrigation of all organs, make your heart pump blood better, make your skin soft your face look young and your muscle flex easier.
 

Food and micronutrients for Hormones balance
 

In general there are more hormones than mention above which work together in concert manner to facilitate healthy body functions with good vitality. Knowing your hormonal system properly and live in the way to enhance or facilitate all hormones system to work well together is state of the art life style everyone want.

Since hormones involve in our biological processes and we cannot stop aging process, what can we take to balance our hormones if we do not want to take bioidentical hormone supplement, or can also take together with bioidentical hormone supplement with synergistic action and without any undesirable effects.

All of these nutraceutical supplements can take together on daily basis

• Folic acid (400 micrograms)
• Calcium with vitamin D (1000-1500mg)
• Magnesium (250 milligrams)
• Vitamin B-6 (50 to 100 mg)
• Vitamin E (400 international units)
• Soy is flavone (200 milligrams) with DIM (100 milligrams)
• Zinc chelated (75 milligrams)
• Coenzyme Q10 (100-200 milligrams)

Also considering nutraceutical supplementation such as Vitamin E and Evening primrose oil or Flaxseed oil to modulate hormonal cycle for women. Vitamin A, D, K help in producing hormones in men especially vitamin D which help in production of Testosterone

Eating Well the Wellness Ways

Do

• Take low fat and high fiber diet. Many research studies have shown that eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and fish and whole food plant base diet help maintain healthy weight and thus are healthy for hormone balance. These foods are also good sources of hormone resource, vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids.
• Eat plenty of Healthy Fats: Male and Female Hormones are made out of cholesterol. Try organic cheese, egg yolks, whole milk (Lactose free if you are lactose intolerance), , avocado , sesame seed oil, coconut oil, palm oil, and olive oil , salmon cod and deep sea fish are also good source of good fat.
• Practice some intermittent fasting by decrease time to eat only 8 hour and fasting for 16 hours, newest research show a great benefit in health together with boosting growth hormone release

Dont

Dont go to bed late and sleep according to your biological clock that you should sleep well before midnight in the dark room with no interference from environment, Getting not enough sleep, your hormones will not be balanced. So sleep early!

• Avoid high Omega-6 polyunsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated fats are highly unstable and oxidize easily in the body, cause inflammation and mutation in cells
• Decrease caffeine intake: caffeine has competitive actions for hormone metabolism in the liver and chronic caffeine consumption also leads to high blood pressure, increase heart rate, excessive urination, increase epinephrine production, and even anxiety

Limit Alcohol consumption which has directly effect on mood swing